Send your bread on the face of the water,
because in an abundance of days you will find it.
2Give a portion to seven or even to eight,
because you do not know what bad thing
may happen on the earth.
3If the clouds fill,
they will pour down rain on the land;
If a tree falls
on the south or on the north,
In the place where the tree falls,
there it will be.
4Someone who keeps watch on the wind will not sow,
and someone who sees the clouds will not reap.
5As you don’t know the way of the wind,
like the bones in the womb of a pregnant woman,
So you don’t know the work of God
who does everything.
6In the morning sow your seed
and at evening do not let your hand rest,
Because you don’t know
which one will succeed,
This one or the other,
or if both of them will be equally good.
God, give me grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
Courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the Wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other.
Living one day at a time,
Enjoying one moment at a time,
Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,
Taking, as Jesus did,
This sinful world as it is,
Not as I would have it,
Trusting that You will make all things right,
If I surrender to Your will,
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,
And supremely happy with You forever in the next.
Amen.